On the incident solar radiation in CMIP5 models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1930-1935

  Zhou, Linjiong ^a,b,c   Zhang, Minghua ^a,c   Bao, Qing ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP5 results; Insolation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

CMIP5 RESULTS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; INCIDENT RADIATION; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPURIOUS OSCILLATIONS; TEMPORAL SAMPLING ERRORS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; ZENITH ANGLE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84927720988     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063239     Document Type: Article

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